Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Karen Olivo won. 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Karen Olivo was nominated but did not win. 2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards ...

After moving to New York at 16, she was cast as Velma in the Broadway production of West Side Story. She would later be one of six actors from the original Broadway cast to appear in the 1961 film.

D'Andrea was one of only six actors from the original Broadway cast of West Side Story to appear in the United Artists feature; the others were Tony Mordente, Tommy Abbott, William Bramley ...

Bernstein conducted his composition here for the first time. West Side Story being composed 30 years prior. Apprehensive at first, he quickly relishes the challenge. The orchestra and singers are ...

"I kept thinking, 'Do you want me to bring my abuelita in?'" the "Snow White" actress and singer says of her experience.

When the pandemic shuttered Broadway theaters ... The storied director grew up listening to the 1957 “West Side Story” cast album (he dedicated the film to his father, Arnold, who died ...

Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Karen Olivo won. 2009 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Karen Olivo was nominated but did not win. 2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards ...